This Under the Sea Mosaic Mural was made by Michelle Barry and Debbie Qadri at Keilor Heights Primary School. The ceramic features of the mosaic were made by the children, teachers and parents of the school.
The mosaic is seven metres wide and two and a half metres high.
All of the classes in the school participated in workshops to make the ceramic features for the mosaic of fish, mermaids and mermen, boats, shells, a treasure chest, corals and seaweed, swimmers and deepsea divers.
All of the ceramic features were made using white earthenware clay and liquid underglazes. They were fired in the school kiln.
This is a view of the mosaic from the opposite angle.
The features were glued onto the wall and the background filled in with a mosaic of broken tiles to suggest the sand, sea and a stormy sunset above.
Near the centre of the mosaic is a black rock that reaches up to become an island with a lighthouse.
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